Linotype-magazine rack.



s. w. CHESNUTT.

LINOTYPE MAGAZINE RACK.

APPLICATION FILED JAN-5,1916.

1,234,872. Patented July 31,1917.

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Mow/mg SEIBERT WATSON CHESNUTT, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

LINOTYPE-MAGAZINE' RACK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 31, 1917 Application filed January 5, 1916. Serial No. 70,418.

a simple and efficient form of rack that may be bolted or otherwise secured to the ordinary wall of a building, or to any usual means of support.

Linotype magazine racks heretofore have been bulky and heavy, requiring an unreasonable amount of room in which to store a given number of magazines, and an excessive amount of metal and labor in their construction, the resulting high cost of the rack being a further great objection. It is essential that a rack be constructed of less material, requiring less labor, and correspondingly lowering the cost of production, likewise the cost to the consumer, a great convenience of manipulation and a saving of room being very desirable. v

The present invention seeks to provide an improved suspendable rack for storing linotype magazines, comprising a suitable frame and horizontally swinging and folding arms suitably constructed to receive and retain the usual linotype magazine.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the various parts as to avoid all machine work in the construction of the rack, such as drilling holes, employing finished shafting, and the babbitting or boring of bearings.

With these and other objects in View, the invention consists in the improved features of construction, combinations, manipula-. tions, and arrangements of parts hereinafter set forth, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and more fully pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the improved rack in elevation, with certain of the magazine retaining arms folded in one direction and others folded in an opposite direction, with two of the arms supporting linotype magazines of common and well known construction.

Fig. 2 is a plan view. of the rack with all of the arms folded in one direction and illus trating the smallness of the space occupied thereby, one of the arms being broken away 7 to save room in illustrating.

Fig. 8 is a view in elevation of the frame work of the rack with the arms removed.

The upper supporting frame member 1 and the lower supporting frame memberQ are preferably duplicate and cast from the same pattern, each'being a plain triangular frame, provided with integral lugs 3 through which pass the bolts 1 to bolt the frame to any desirable means ofsupport as a wall or the like, the two supporting frame members being held rigidly in relative position by the spacing frame member 5, the members being bolted together by bolts 6, the member 5 being preferably formed of arms 7 and 8 crossing each other in diagonal direction and forming a rigid brace to support the supporting members against the angular strains to which they are subjected. The supporting frame membersl and 2 are provided with holes 9 in which are inserted the trunnion bearing pins 10, projecting from the posts 11, integral with the supporting arms 12, the trunnions, posts and arms being cast integral so that they may be placed in operative position in the supporting frame members without machining or finishing in any manner, the entire frame being preferably of rough castings, preferably malleable iron so that a rack weighing but a few pounds may support with safety as many magazines as the previous form of magazine rack weighing several hundred pounds. The arms 12 are provided with the lugs 13 to support and retain the usual magazine 14 by the usual supporting bar 15. It will be understood that therack may be bolted to any desired support as a wall or post and that the arms 12 may be swung to and fro so that a magazine may be deposited upon or withdrawn from any one of the arms, it being more convenient and requiring much less room to swing the arms to and fro and separate the arm upon which it is desired to deposit a magazine, or from which it is desired to withdraw a magazine, than to withdraw the magazine bodily the full width thereof from a rectangular group of magazines as heretofore. The folding arms of the present invention require much less space than the old method owing to the construction allowing the arms to fold more closely together, while in a rectangular group of magazines considerable room is required between each pair of magazines to allow room for sufficient supports, because of the cumbersome construction of the rectangular group rack. It is obvious that numerous changes may be made in the details as set forth without departing from the essentials of the invention.

l/Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In a linotype magazine retaining rack, a vertical post, a casting integral therewith and extending outward therefrom, portions of the upper surface of said casting forming bearing surfaces for the cross bar of a linotype magazine, ribs at each end of said casting integral therewith, said ribs extending above said bearing surfaces and adapted to hold the cross bar on said surfaces and said vertical post arranged whereby said casting may swing to and fro in a horizontal direction.

2. In a linotype magazine retaining rack, two right angled triangular shaped castings arranged one above the other, lugs integral with and arranged on the diagonal sides of said triangular shaped castings, said lugs provided with holes to form bearings for vertical posts supporting linotype magazines, whereby the upper corners of said magazine may freely swing to and fro without contacting with said lugs.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

SEIBERT IVATSON C-IIESNUTT. WVitnesses: RUTH RIDGELL, WILLIAM E. DODSON.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0. 

